Add MS 48038

ETON COLLEGE DOCUMENTS, AND TREATISE ON THE EXCHEQUER; mid 16th cent. Latin and English.

1. ff. 1-57b. Documents relating to Eton College; 1443-1548. Latin. Copies, mid 16th cent. As follows: (a) Inspeximus by letters patent of Henry VIII of grants of Henry VI, Edward IV and Henry VII to Eton College, 1440-1507; 5 March 1510. ff. 1-49; (b) Letters patent of Edward VI to Eton College; 30 Aug. 1547. CPR 1547-1548, pp. 8-9. ff. 50-53; (c) Warrant of Edward VI to the Chancellor, to issue letters of confirmation to the Provost and fellows of Eton College of all privileges confirmed to the College by charter of Henry VI, omitting clauses referring to the Pope; May 1548. CPR Edward VI, vol. v, App. 1547-1553, p. 404. ff. 53b-55b;

(d) Letters of William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln, granting the Provost and fellows of Eton College freedom from the jurisdiction of the Archdeacon of Buckingham; 7 Sept. 1443. Confirmed by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, 8 Sept. 1443 (f. 57) and Thomas Bekinton, Archdeacon of Buckingham,

12 Sept. 1443 (f. 57b). ff. 55b-57b.

2. ff. 63-72b. Treatise on the Exchequer; mid 16th cent. Latin and English. Entitled 'The Fourme or patron of a Chessebord declaryng that the kynges eschequer is the most auncyenst court of Record', f. 63. Beg. 'Thys Fygure of a playn chesborde . . . ', f. 64. The writer, who quotes extensively from the Red Book of the Exchequer, proposes reforms and likens the flow of revenue through the Exchequer to the working of a water conduit in a great house (ff. 71-71b). There are two plans: (a) Chessboard, with surrounding Exchequer benches, f. 64; (b) Plan showing the course of revenue in and out of the Exchequer, f. 70b. Other copies of this treatise are Add. 48116, art. 25, and Lansdowne MS. 170, ff. 47-51b, where it is entitled 'A treates of the exchequer beinge the originall courte of the whole realme'. The copy of the plan of the course of the revenue (Lansdowne MS. 170, f. 47b) is headed 'This forme of the Exchequer is in an old booke remayning in the custodie of the Treasorer and Chamberlaynes of the Exchequer, in the Receipt side'.

Paper and (art. 2) vellum; vi + 72. 17th-cent. foliation. Folio. Mid XVI cent. Handwriting: art. 1, one mid 16th-cent. secretary hand; art. 2, one mid 16th-cent. legal hand. In the binding, f. i, is a fragment of a 14th-cent. gloss on Peter's threefold denial of Christ. Vellum binding, titled and numbered '43' on the spine, on which the number '3' is also written. Traces of label on front cover.

Elizabeth I of England: Papers of R. Beale, Clerk of the Council: 16th cent.

Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council: Correspondence and papers.

includes:

• f. i Theology LATIN: Gloss on Peter's threefold denial of Christ: 14th cent: Lat: Fragm.
• ff. 1-49 Henry VIII of England: Inspeximus of grants to Eton College: 1510: Lat: Copy, mid 16th cent.
• ff. 1-57b Eton College; Berkshire: Documents rel. to: 1443-1548: Copies, mid 16th cent.
• ff. 50-55b Edward VI of England: Letters patent, etc., to Eton College: 1547-1548: Lat: Copies, mid 16th cent.
• ff. 63-72b Exchequer: Treatise `The fourme or patron of a chessebord': 16th cent: Lat. and Engl: Two copies.
• ff. 64, 70b Maps and Plans: Chessboard representing the Exchequer, and diagrammatic representation of the course of the revenue: mid 16th cent.